{"id":8508,"date":"2017-01-30T08:24:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8508"},"modified":"2017-01-30T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T14:19:04","slug":"collected-quotes-jan-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2017\/01\/30\/collected-quotes-jan-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Collected Quotes Jan 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u2022 Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n

There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through them while removing them from a trunk; yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after twenty years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book from beginning to end, at one sitting: it is like a revelation. Now one knows why one made such a fuss about it. It had to be with one for a long time; it had to travel; it had to occupy space; it had to be a burden; and now it has reached the goal of its voyage, now it reveals itself, now it illuminates the twenty bygone years it mutely lived with one. It could not say so much if it had not been there mutely the whole time, and what idiot would dare to assert that the same things had always been in it.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u2022 Elias Canetti, The Human Province<\/i><\/p>\n

It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m one of Us. I must be. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No-one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re always one of Us. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Them that do the bad things.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u2022 Terry Pratchett<\/p>\n

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Carl Jung<\/p>\n

But the problem is, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how to be the glass half full girl, but I also don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how to not be the glass half empty girl. Those are two extremes and I feel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m somehow caught in the middle.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0chasingsettingsuns<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve noticed before that if you go too long without anyone seeing you, really seeing you, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy to start wondering if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re really there.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Maggie Mitchell<\/p>\n

Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Douglas Adam<\/p>\n

Two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Daniel Kahneman<\/p>\n

Because let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s be very clear: strong men – strong men, men who are truly role models, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Michelle Obama<\/p>\n

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201d <\/em>Trudi Canavan<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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